'Descendants of victors': Russia evokes Stalingrad for Ukraine boost
More than one million members of the Red Army died fighting for the city, a sacrifice that has seen it evolve into a symbol of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany
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Searcher and volunteer Andrei Oreshkin walks at the Russian part of a memorial ground in the village of Rossoshka - the burial site for Soviet, German and Romanian soldiers. (AFP photo)
By NewVision Reporter
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Eighty years after the devastating battle for Stalingrad in southern Russia, one of the bloodiest chapters of World War II, volunteers like Andrei Oreshkin are still retrieving remains of killed